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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Small Filebrowser with fastloader for Pi1541
Hello all!
Since I'm using my Handheld 64 with Pi1541 and I am neither willing to JiffyDOS it nor have a utility cart plugged in at all times, I am wondering why nobody married the Pi1541 FB64 (the modded one from the Pi1541-homepage) with a fast and small software fastloader such as "25x Turbo" (25 X Turbo) to include that in the FB64 binary and run it just before loading whatever is chosen to load from FB64. There really is no need to use slooooow ROM loading a la SD2IEC when the Pi1541 can handle fast loaders, is there?
Now, while we're at it, adding a simple "N:Newdisk" DOS command feature to create and mount new .d64s right in FB64 (default behaviour when it's in SD2IEC mode!) would seem like a really useful addition, too, and maybe possibly delete and rename, too!...
Any takers here? ;-) I tried to convince a few people like Bitbreaker, GRG and FieserWolf to do it, but that didn't go anywhere because neither of them have a Pi1541....
P.S: "Dir Plus" from boray.se actually does the .d64 creation, rename and delete and even move on Pi1541, but unfortunately not the speedloader bit. Also it's like 100 blocks big, so utterly unuseable as an FB64 alternative!... |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
I'm quite sure I tried dracopy with Pi1541 and it didn't work with its somewhat limited SD2IEC compatibility. I've tried a shitload of filebrowsers, but the only ones that worked are those that were specifically adjusted for and tested with Pi1541, i.e. FB64 aka CBMfilebrowser and Boray.se's Dir Plus!...
From the screenshot I think I've tried it, but I shall try once again... Which version do you recommend, TSM? |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
I wasn't aware of all these problems. Apparently, Dir Plus is your only choice and even that will fail from time to time. |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
okay, I tried Dracopy with Pi1541. v1.0d won't even start, the progress bar grows gor a minute or so and then i get a blue screen. v1.0e does start, but shows nothing and does not react to any keypresses.. |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
Sadly, the only program that will (mostly) work for you is probably Dir Plus. The old CBM Command is worth a shot, though.
Anyway, can I see this famous handheld 64 that you have? :-) |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Quote: Sadly, the only program that will (mostly) work for you is probably Dir Plus. The old CBM Command is worth a shot, though.
Anyway, can I see this famous handheld 64 that you have? :-)
Sure: https://youtu.be/3HPQoBLAABs?t=969
..and in German:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGeMEu-VzSU
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOQ4V2D_-o
I may have actually missed cbmcommand in my testing, cause I cannot remember its UI. But that may be because it just wouldn't start! ;-) I shall try it out!... |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
Unbelievable! And it runs on batteries! |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Thanks, yeah, I'm very proud of it and I love it! ;-D
Just did some stopwatch speed measurements on it btw, I'm seeing exactly a 7.5x speed gain on the Pi1541 (88.5 sec for 202 Blocks of One-Der on stock, 11.8 sec with Turbo), giving us 17.1 blocks or about 4.4kb a second.
The Retro Replay loader takes about 9.5 seconds, yielding a 9.3x speedup... |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Okay, after finding much higher times for 202 blocks on stock online I figured that loading the PRG in SD2IEC mode was probably not the best idea.
So I measured again without FB64 and One-der PRG mounted and got 10.4s for 25x Turbo (slightly faster, cause the loader does not need to be installed first) and 130.8s for stock. This gives us a 12.6x speedup (19.4 blocks/s or 4.9kb/s) for 25x Turbo (or 11x from FB64 with loader installation first.. and 13.8x for Retro Replay!).. |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
I did check cbmcommand btw before, and it would not start with Pi1541.. |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ZNsnioPYG6AhkL6QoYB7M3apkN6D5..
Added a compile-time (assemble-time?) option to show "**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****" etc. after the loading process.
@DeeKay and anyone interested: please test! |
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